‘Tchure’… I hadn’t run across this weird word until I visited the village of Deddington, a few miles south of Banbury. It’s a pretty little place, with shops, pubs and cafes clustered around a green – and a few minutes walk away, the remains of an ancient castle. The tchure of Deddington links a footpath [...]
Archive | November, 2012
ONION BHAJI IN DEDDINGTON
I’d been previously to Deddington’s splendid foodfest market, where I had sampled the delights of very ‘unEnglish’ onion bhajis, deep-fried in a huge cauldron for me by a Moroccan smallholder. Recipe to come, I assure you – it was food for a king. My last visit to Deddington was to track down a spare for [...]
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR RE-ELECTION PRESIDENT OBAMA – AND A REMINDER OF LINKS BETWEEN OUR COUNTRIES
During World War II, eastern England was effectively a giant ‘aircraft carrier’ for the Allied invasion of Europe. And one of the best ways to get a feel of what was involved is to make a visit to Imperial War Museum Duxford, based a few miles south of the famed university town of Cambridge. In [...]
SPECTACULAR SHADES OF LEAF FALL
Early November means the trees are becoming very bare, here in the Cotswolds. The upside is of course the wonderful colours that surround us – greens, yellows, russets, browns – they’re all there, mostly now spread on the ground. Beauty indeed, perhaps best summed up in the words of Shakespeare’s John of Gaunt, “…This other [...]
NORTON MOTORCYCLES BACK ON THE ROAD WITH THE COMMANDO 961 CAFE RACER
To motorcyclists of a certain age, the name Norton means the maker of a range of classic bikes that, along with machines from Triumph, ruled the roads of England in times past, their heyday the 1940s and 1950s. Now, after various changes of ownership, Norton has come back to England, with a new factory based [...]
BOY’S OWN PAPER – 60 YEARS ON, A MAGAZINE FOR NOSTALGIA BUFFS
In the New Year, The English Eye is going to bring you the best of ‘Boy’s Own Paper’ from 60 years ago, as an online edition. The pages of BOP were produced from offices in Bouverie Street, London, and provide a fascinating insight into the commercial world of 1953, with adverts for all sorts of [...]
COTSWOLD HARVEST HOME
Now it’s Autumn, and the clocks have gone back to ghastly winter time, which means that shades of night are drawing in not long after English teatime – and before that when the skies are overcast. One day perhaps, we’ll decide to stop this twice-a-year moving the clocks back and forth. My choice is very [...]
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A GYPSY CARAVAN FOR SALE IN THE ENGLISH COTSWOLDS
- A few sketches!
- POOHSTICKS: A GAME BORN AT THE HOUSE OF POOH CORNER
- INTERNATIONAL POOHSTICKS COMPETITION ON THE RIVER THAMES, NEAR DORCHESTER
- Source of the Thames
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